walking

Sooke Basin Drone VIDEO 2-minutes

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Thursday I cycled 16km roundtrip along the Galloping Goose Trail.

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Starting at Rocky Point Road I trailed the hexacopter on my Burley Flatbed up to the 38km Marker. This puts one at the marvelous outlook over Sooke Basin.

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The trail is elevated approximately 30m (100ft.) above the ocean at this location.

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We took the copter up another 45m (150ft.) so at an elevation of some 75m (250ft.) we got a much better view of the surrounding terrain.

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It was another day in paradise. For the first six kilometres outbound I did not see anyone else on the trail.

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Labels: 30km, 38km, cycled, ggt, hexacopter, yuneec

Bentley I'm pleased with the shoot inasmuch as we got some actual video footage -- which isn't always the case
Here's the best sample I have which shows what I feel is required in a realty presentation: the house and its location and relationship to its surroundings

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You can have the raw files if you want

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I've got many screengrabs which will be posted to Photos.Google tomorrow
 Dad
The VIDEO is UNLISTED but you should get it with this link Realty VIDEO shoot

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Labels: family, hexacopter

Thursday we walked the Galloping Goose Trail from the upper parking lot at Sooke Potholes to Todd Creek Trestle.

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The Capital Regional District (CRD) states on their website the trail in that section will be closed to users until lfurther notice.

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There is currently no work of any kind underway on the project. It was stated to us by an onsite park's, trail-worker the trestle work will not commence until the fall.

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It appears to us the delay is primarily to force northbound trail users to use the pay parking lots at sites one, two and three. This is not an issue for us as we have an annual parking pass but it will generate more income for the CRD in parking fees which will in turn defray some of the $1.2 million dollar cost of the upgrades.

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While on site -- and no one was around -- I put the hexacopter in flight from #3 parking lot and shot some video of the area.

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On the way out to the potholes we stopped in at John's place and learned he sold the waterfront spread due to his health issues.

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After we left the potholes, we stopped in at Doug's spread beside Sooke River (at the flats) and invited him to join us for fish&chips at Mom's Cafe in Sooke. Doug is 91yrs now and can still spin a good yarn. If you get my meanin'.

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Labels: ggt, hexacopter, sooke, walked